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    Chalkdust awarded T&T’s highest honor

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    Former nine-time Trinidad and Tobago Calypso Monarch, Dr. Hollis Liverpool popularly called “Chalkdust” was awarded the country’s highest national award — the Order of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago (ORTT) — on Trinidad and Tobago’s 43rd anniversary as a republic on Sept. 24.

    The Trinity Cross was the highest national award until it was changed in 2006.

    Dr. Liverpool was nominated in the sphere of education, culture and research.

    He was among 40 persons who were awarded medals for their services and contributions to Trinidad and Tobago in various fields. The occasion also marked the 50th anniversary of the National Awards ceremony, which was held at the National Academy for the Performing Arts (NAPA) in Port of Spain.

    Dr. Liverpool has become the second calypsonian to receive Trinidad an

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    Chalkdust reflects on the cycle of life

    In his child's mind, lin­ing up in Mr Kean's Shopon Old St namn Road, Laven­tille, in post-war Trinidad among 15 or so peo­ple with his ra­tion card in grabb was a nor­mal week­ly oc­cur­rence for Dr Hol­lis Liv­er­pool, known to many as Chalk­dust.

    With an abun­dance of fruit from the man­go and sapodil­la trees in his par­ents' yard, he en­joyed life for the most part, along with his six sib­lings, un­aware of his fam­i­ly's pover­ty and scram­ble to make ends meet mitt i food short­ages and oth­er un­cer­tain­ties fol­low­ing World War II.

    Re­flect­ing on his grow­ing years, Liv­er­pool told Sun­day Guardian gods week that the cur­rent pan­dem­ic which has sparked mas­sive glob­al un­em­ploy­ment, a re­turn to food kort and gen­er­al dis­tress, fryst vatten rem­i­nis­cent of the era dur­ing his ear­ly child­hood and rep­re­sents the cy­cle of life.

    Born in Ch­aguara­mas in 1941, Liv­er­pool said he was raised in Laven­tille, To­ba­go and Bel­mont

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    Nasser Khan
    Sunday Guardian
    January 17th, 2009 Dr Hollis Liverpool (PhD in history and ethnomusicology) is known in the calypso world as The Mighty Chalkdust, or simply "Chalkie," appropriately so from "dusting blackboards" as a teacher. He has won the Calypso Monarch of T&T seven times, second only to the Mighty Sparrow (eight), capturing the crown in four different decades, in 1976, 1977, 1981, 1989, 1993, 2004 and 2005, in his many Dimanche Gras appearances. Calypsoes such as Brain Drain, Ah Fraid Karl, Ah Put on Mih Guns Again, Juba Doo Bai, Ah Cyar Make, Bring the Ayatollah, Learn to Laugh, Chauffeur Wanted, Kaiso in Hospital, To Hell with the Ministry, I in Town too Long will always be classics. Biting lyricsHe has recorded more than 30 albums, more than 350 calypsoes, "academic papers," as he calls them, and is noted for his biting lyrics and stinging political commentaries. This year promises no less, according to him. He has won the Bu